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[nineteenfortyfive]

[Is this not about a medical thing, this time? Seems so. Claire's a bit more relaxed than she usually is when using the network, and it might have something to do with that glass of wine in front of her.]

It's my fifty-first birthday this weekend. Do I win the award for most elderly amongst us refugees?

It's hard to believe I was in my late twenties when I first came to Olympia. Stasis is... strange, to say the least, but I'm sure any of us here for an amount of time realize that.

[Now, let's see who's going to be a smartass and make a grandma comment. She's waiting. It's there, in her smile. Do it.]

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[objectionattorney]

That's... Really weird.

[Like, how does that even add up scientifically? Wasn't the point of the stasis chambers to heal people? So how was it making them physically older?]

And I'm sure complicated. Are there other people from your own world here? I can't imagine it would be easy for them to process.

[nineteenfortyfive]

You're telling me. My children are here--and luckily, they've only ever seen me as I am now. [Thank God. They've hear tales of Claire when she was younger, but meeting her? Well, that would just be a mess.]

[objectionattorney]

[...Eesh.]

Wow. I could only imagine if the possibility ever arose where my teenage daughter would meet me around her age. I don't think I would ever live it down.

[Speaking of-- It may be a bit of an invasive question but.]

How many children do you have?

[nineteenfortyfive]

[It's not invasive as much as it is complicated.]

Three under my roof.

[One by blood, one adopted at home, and one that has no one else here.]

[objectionattorney]

[Oh, don't worry. He understands how complicated can be.]

Oh goodness, sounds like you have your hands full! They all young or are they more along the lines of a gaggle of rambunctious teens?

[nineteenfortyfive]

The youngest is twenty, the oldest in his early thirties. [And now she feels ancient.] It can be... messy.

[objectionattorney]

Ah, I can relate to that feeling. I only had one child technically, but I had enough kids following me around most of my life that some are almost thirty.

[Laughs.]

Still, even at that age, they can be a handful. In fact the oldest one I looked after still feels like the biggest troublemaker of the lot for me.

[Stop talking about your old associate like she's a wild child Phoenix.]

[nineteenfortyfive]

[A kindred spirit, then.]

You hardly seem thirty yourself.

[objectionattorney]

Well, considering I'm on the latter end of that decade I'm flattered.

[He couldn't help but chuckle with that, his tone only getting a little more serious as he continued.]

It was mostly due to my career that I ended up looking after so many kids. I was only twenty-four when the first one started following me around, and she was still sixteen at the time. She took up the role of my assistant as I took care of her. Although she also spent time away to take up training with her own education and career goals on occasion.

It's still weird to think she's almost thirty herself now...

[She certainly doesn't act it.]